Re: changelog and copyright files

[Brian May <bam@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Julian" == Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> writes:

    Julian> On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 11:41:59PM +0000, Christoph
    Julian> Baumann wrote:
    >> Hi!
    >> 
    >> I released a new version of maelstrom about two weeks ago. It
    >> is now in the archive. But when looking at the WWW page for
    >> maelstrom the changelog and copyright files are the ones from
    >> the last version. How can this happen?

    Julian> What WWW page?  And is it possibly referring to the slink
    Julian> or potato distribution, or is it perhaps a cached copy you
    Julian> were looking at?

I believe this is a known problem with the changelog and copyright
links.

When I raised the issue, the general answer was that it wasn't worth
keeping an extra copy of the required files around, just to keep the
versions consistent. Not that I really understand the details, but it
was enough to satisfy my curiosity.

Have a look at the debian-devel archives (not sure when, sometime this
year, or December last year I think) for details. Or perhaps I filled
a bug against www.debian.org. Sorry, I can't remember now.
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>